Insurrection: 1 (Starfire) - Softcover

WEBER, DAVID

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671720244 ISBN 13: 9780671720247

Publisher: BAEN BOOKS, 1990

Synopsis

Reissued to tie-in with Crusade, a rousing space adventure in the spirit of David Drake and Jerry Pournelle. It's the American Revolution all over again--and this time the stakes are not a single continent, but the stars themselves. "Peopled with strong characters . . . who strive to uphold basic human values in a war of future worlds".--Greenville Piedmont.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH....

In the end, the only political systems that seem to work are those based on freedom. The Inner World leaders of the Terran Federation seem to have forgotten this simple truth. After fighting the Khanate -- with the Fringe Worlds to supply the raw material and the fighting men -- the Inner Worlds found it hard to give up the powers they had seized during the war. So they decided not to -- rather than allow the rapidly expanding Fringe Worlds representation in the Federation, they are inviting the Khanate in, to keep the colonial upstarts in their place. The Fringers have only one answer to that:

About this edition

• Publisher: BAEN BOOKS
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0671720244
• ISBN 13: 9780671720247
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416